Need help with posting orders and API in general

API Futures API
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Hey, beginner coder here.
This is the first time I’m fully working on a project that I’m super interested in, however, I just can’t wrap my head around interacting with the API …

Currently, I’m receiving market price and kline data through WebSockets and I’m able to parse the retrieved JSON data for use in dictionaries and such, I have implemented the strategies using python and I just need to know how I should execute the order through to my futures account, set stop loss for my orders and retrieve my wallet balance so I could work out the amount I want to order.

I have read the documentation MANY times(+Lots of github repos), and I can’t understand ANYTHING, just as an example:

POST /fapi/v1/order (HMAC SHA256)

I don’t know what post, fapi, v1 or HMAC SHA256 is, and worse than that I don’t even know how to look them up properly!

It is much appreciated if you tell me how I can go about finding the answer to such questions, or just a code representation of how I can go about creating a new order, setting stop losses, retrieving wallet balance or just a video tutorial or anything that isn’t abstract and has examples (unlike the docs which are just super unreadable to me)

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Hi.
POST /fapi/v1/order (HMAC SHA256) represents the format of request url.

  1. POST is a RESTful API method.
  2. /fapi/v1/order is the pattern you have to apply after the base url. For example, the base url is https://fapi.binance.com. When sending a request to place an order, the complete url will be https://fapi.binance.com/fapi/v1/order.
  3. HMAC SHA256 is the way to generate hash value representing the signature. Please refer to the following section in the API doc for the usage. https://binance-docs.github.io/apidocs/futures/en/#signed-trade-and-user_data-endpoint-security